Roads

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Road Service Area (RSA) maintains over 645 miles (95% is gravel and 5% is paved) of roads.

Citizen Maintenance Permit Application

Amended Policy Statement No. 2024-01

Before you begin, please see the:

Citizen Maintenance Permit Information Packet

Construction Permitting within Borough Rights-of-Way

Pursuant to KPB 14.40.060(B)(11) the following guidelines are here by established for road construction projects and maintenance subject to permitting by the borough:

CITIZEN MAINTENANCE PERMITS

  1. Pursuant to KPB 14.40.040(B) maintenance permits shall be issued for citizen maintenance of borough rights-of-way.
  2. A single application may be filed for several rights-of-way or for ongoing seasonal Citizen Maintenance pursuant to KPB 14.40.040(B). Applicants for citizen seasonal maintenance shall reapply each year.
  3. On rights-of-way that have not been certified for maintenance by the borough, annual permit application for seasonal citizen maintenance consisting of only snow
    removal, may be waived at the discretion of the roads director.
  4. Citizen maintenance includes, but is not limited to, snow removal; grading; replacing lost gravel (not to exceed a depth of six inches); reshaping shoulders, slopes, and ditches; unplugging culverts and clearing ditches; filling potholes; dust control; and other such activities consistent with sound maintenance practice.
  5. Citizen maintenance does not include such activities as relocating a road; survey and design of a road; widening a road; adding lost material in excess of six inches in depth; and other such activities that would constitute road construction as opposed to road maintenance.
  6. Construction within a borough right-of-way must comply with the right-of-way construction permit provisions of KPB 14.40.

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